Hey there, DETECTIVES! DETECTIVE WRITER here to tell you all about an unsolved crime in Australia, the case of Victoria Cafasso.
Victoria Cafasso was a twenty-year-old woman born on June 8th, 1975 in Surrey, England. Cafasso was a dual citizen of both Italy and England because of both her birth and that she was living in Italy with her parents and younger sister. Her mother worked in a travel agency and her father was a lawyer. She was trilingual in French, Italian, and English. She went on vacation to visit a cousin in Tasmania and a grandma in England after choosing not to attend school for a bit.
On October 6th, 1975, she arrived in Launceston and she was received by a cousin and friend also visiting but from Sydney. She was seen leaving her cousin’s house a few times to go to Beaumaris Beach over the few days of her visit.
On the morning of October 11th, 1975, at around 9 A.M., Cafasso went out for another walk on the beach. Allegedly, around 10 A.M., she was sunbathing. Around 1:30 P.M., her body was discovered partly in the water, a bit undressed, and some of her items were found about fifty meters up the beach. It was estimated her time of death must have been around 11:30 A.M. and 12:35 P.M. A few other belongings of her such as her towel, shirt, bikini bottoms, and the murder weapon have never been found.
In 2005, the coroner stated that she suffered over seventeen stab wounds and had been brutally attached on the beach. Although, she had tried to defend herself with a blunt object that had broken three of her teeth but not from the multiple stabbings. To this day, the murder has never been solved and the police response was viewed as controversial because Cafasso’s body had been moved, forensic investigators did not arrive at the scene, no photos nor videos were taken, and she was covered by a waterproof cloth and not the scene, and it was not immediately blocked off from the public which reportedly had been over fifty people. Whoever took Cafasso’s life, has never been identified.
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